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Éinniú understood the history behind the songs
A British inquiry did not recommend charges and the killings were largely forgotten given the scale of the Rising deaths.
Sa bhliain 2000, vótáladh Nagle mar Bhean Éireannach na Mílaoise, “mar aitheantas ar a tábhacht mar cheannródaí in oideachas na mban in Éirinn.”
The Count was offered a pardon from all his crimes by the Anglican Bishop of Meath, Bishop Jones, if he testified against the Catholic priests.
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days.
The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
“Everything we do know about Scappaticci since he was exposed confirms that he was a state agent”
Joseph Plunket and Grace Gifford married just hours before he was executed in the Stone-breakers’ Yard on the morning of 4 May 1916.
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant.